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📚 Glossary Term

City-State

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Definition An independent city and the nearby land it controls.

🧒 In Simple Words

A city-state is a city that acts like its own small country.

📌 Example

Some ancient societies were organized as city-states.

âœī¸ Use It in a Sentence

"The city-state governed itself instead of answering to a larger empire."

🔗 Related Terms

CivilizationGovernmentEmpire